Kerry warned me about this.
And apparently I forget sometimes that I am 39 (40 this July).
I severely overtrained my legs in March in my quest for our team yardage record. He told me that I might not recover for our Pac Champs (I didn't), and I might not even recover for Nats (obviously I didn't). I was ok, not great, for 50s and 100s. But anything over a 100 and I was toast as my legs were just non-functional.
I am not complaining/making excuses, for 2 reasons: I achieved my goal and broke our team record, and two, the meet is over and I need to move on.
But my question is this: how do you recover o/t legs? I've looked at a lot of sites and haven't seen any good ones, a lot of body building stuff too.
I wanted to start running today, but I don't want to dig an even bigger hole than the one I'm in.
I've never overtrained anything, so this is new for me. All suggestions are welcome.
Stretching- how often?
Massage- how often, type?
Other?
fmracing- good ideas. We don't do a lot of kick sets, in fact not much at all. I never wear fins. In March I only had so much time to do so many yards. I had to do all of my 100s at 1:10-1:12 pace. The only way that was happening was with fins, and fins with paddles.
So I basically went from no fins to fin-crazed, and upped my yardage by about 10K/day. In retrospect, not too bright. In the future, not doing this again!
Thanks 'shark. I'll look into this :agree:
fmracing- good ideas. We don't do a lot of kick sets, in fact not much at all. I never wear fins. In March I only had so much time to do so many yards. I had to do all of my 100s at 1:10-1:12 pace. The only way that was happening was with fins, and fins with paddles.
So I basically went from no fins to fin-crazed, and upped my yardage by about 10K/day. In retrospect, not too bright. In the future, not doing this again!
Thanks 'shark. I'll look into this :agree:
